Microsoft Live Mesh goes private beta

There’s been a lot of buzz about Microsoft’s Live Mesh. The live mesh team shares their thoughts and experiences - “We started by asking ourselves a series of questions about our own digital lifestyle experiences, and examining the role of the web in our lives. We examined many of the ways the web is becoming more central to us – both work style and lifestyle. We’re friending, twittering, digging, tagging and linking to stay in touch, share photos, be entertained, meet new people, express our opinions, learn, and the list goes on.”

Live Mesh is a technology designed by microsoft for sharing data between computing devices like cellphone, PDA, work computer, home PC, using the internet as a hub. It’s gone private beta with bout 10,000 of beta testers with an opportunity to test how easy it could be to port data between any device that supports Windows.

Mesh lets the user create a virtual desktop making all files in Mesh folder available to all devices hooked up to that virtual hub. For example photos stored at home can be browsed by your PDA, a document shared between people at work. Moreover, the photos taken be mesh enabled cellphone may be able to pop up on a remote digital photo frame.

The idea Live Mesh presents is to replace the concept of “My Computer” with an agglomeration of all of your devices. Or, as chief software architect Ray Ozzie says, with a dash of tech-philosophy: “a personal mesh of devices - a means by which all of your devices are brought together, managed through the web, as a seamless whole.”

The private beta is available in USA only, limited to about 10,000 persons, and works only with PCs running XP or Vista. Microsoft will be expanding support to Apple computers and other mobile phones through the year, and opening a public beta before 2009

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